Hi,
"Wiki Loves Monuments ID" is self-referential, I don't think it would be
a good replacement for IDs in national monument databases - for example,
those can be linked to external database entries, while P2186 can't be.
If anything, P2186 could be used an additional ID, with own set of
values or mirroring the national IDs. Although, own set of values would
probably be a better idea to avoid conflicts between countries.
Jernej
On 29. 04. 2021 11:27, Josephine Lim wrote:
Hi all,
Hope you are all safe and well. After having finalized our plans for
WLM integration into the Commons app based on community feedback
(
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mobile_app/WLM
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mobile_app/WLM> , which
was posted to this mailing list a couple of months ago), we have
started work on implementation.
We have run into a bit of an issue, however, that we are hoping to get
help with. The initial plan (based on the discussion at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2020-July/009263.h…
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2020-July/009263.html>
and at the abovementioned wiki page) was to use Wikidata as our data
source, displaying all Wikidata items with the identifier property of
P2186 (Wiki Loves Monuments ID) on our map.
However we have now found out that some countries don't use P2186 at
all. Someone kindly linked
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM/Status#Table
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM/Status#Table>
to me, and based on that it seems that there is a rather large variety
of identifiers that different countries use.
Realistically speaking, it would be really difficult for us to account
for every possible identifier that every country uses, and it would
also make stability and maintenance much more tricky. We can try, but
it would be risky and tedious.
On the other hand, it was suggested to me that if there is WLM
community consensus that P2186 should be used as a universal
identifier, countries might be willing to adopt P2186 for the sake of
harmonization.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Many thanks.
Best regards,
Josephine / User:misaochan, Commons app project lead
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